'Jericho' Season 2 Bits (updated)
August 2, 2007 in Television
Date announced for Jericho Season 2 Premier...Note: If you've come here looking for info on the second season of Jericho, you may find these other posts interesting: CBS Entertainment Prez Talks 'Jericho', Stephen King Digs Jericho, Jericho on DVD, Turteltaub on Jericho, Jericho Season 2 Spoilers, CBS Has Message for 'Jericho' Fans, and Jericho Season 2 Preview from IGN.
I'm going to start right off with this from TV.com:
Jericho fans know the deal: If the show does not get enough viewers, it will be canceled. If the attendance at the CBS program's panel at Comic-Con this year is any indication, there is a bit of work to do.
At this point I have got to point out that Jericho has already been canceled, and this new run of seven episodes is not a renewal, nor is it a second season. This is an experiment to see if the show can be produced for less money which can be conveniently used as a mid-season replacement when some of the other new fall and spring shows inevitably die off, the same way Jericho did.
To pretend that this limited-run is a second season or that the show had in fact been renewed after much indecision is delusional. The show was canceled, the sets were struck, its timeslot given away, and most importantly, no advertising was sold for it which meant no big money for the expensive drama.
As Tim Surette points out, Jericho fans (of which I am one of them) need to actually do the hard work now that they've been given another shot here. Buying a box of nuts with your credit card over the Internet while sitting on your fat ass signing digital letters that you didn't write was the easy part, the part that required zero real effort. Now you've got to go out into the world, leave that office chair for a few hours, and convince other people that have never seen the show to sit on their fat asses and boost the ratings.
Otherwise, Jericho is going to get the axe for a second time, and there's no coming back from that.
News coming out of Comic-Con is that the United States government is set to play a foreground role in the new limited-run series, unlike the first season which revolved around the town and inhabitants of Jericho, which was just getting warmed up to a skirmish with a neighboring town over food supplies.
Esai Morales is set to join the cast as a (former?) member of the military. The story line which was intended to run a full season had to be severely condensed to fit the limited order from CBS, which could play in its favor for people who thought the story was unfolding too slowly, or against it by leaving no time for the subtle moments that gives a series its character.
Now that the old sets have been rebuilt, an expense that certainly will weigh heavily on the minds of the shows producers, it's anybodies guess as to whether or not they'll succeed where virtually no other series has. CBS has given token acknowledgment to its part in the ratings decline, which saw Jericho lose nearly thirty percent of its audience due to a forced three-month long hiatus.
New episodes of Jericho are currently in production with no return date currently set.
Update: 4:04PM EDT
I've written a follow-up to this story with a response to a couple of messages in the CBS forum for Jericho.
Update: August 29th
The first season DVD box set of Jericho is available for pre-order on Amazon for $34.99, and will be released on October 2nd '07. You can also download all 23 episodes from Amazon Unbox, though you'll have to deal with DRM and a Windows-only video player. You can get em right now though!
As Tim Surette points out, Jericho fans (of which I am one of them) need to actually do the hard work now that they've been given another shot here. Buying a box of nuts with your credit card over the Internet while sitting on your fat ass signing digital letters that you didn't write was the easy part, the part that required zero real effort. Now you've got to go out into the world, leave that office chair for a few hours, and convince other people that have never seen the show to sit on their fat asses and boost the ratings.
Otherwise, Jericho is going to get the axe for a second time, and there's no coming back from that.
News coming out of Comic-Con is that the United States government is set to play a foreground role in the new limited-run series, unlike the first season which revolved around the town and inhabitants of Jericho, which was just getting warmed up to a skirmish with a neighboring town over food supplies.
Esai Morales is set to join the cast as a (former?) member of the military. The story line which was intended to run a full season had to be severely condensed to fit the limited order from CBS, which could play in its favor for people who thought the story was unfolding too slowly, or against it by leaving no time for the subtle moments that gives a series its character.
Now that the old sets have been rebuilt, an expense that certainly will weigh heavily on the minds of the shows producers, it's anybodies guess as to whether or not they'll succeed where virtually no other series has. CBS has given token acknowledgment to its part in the ratings decline, which saw Jericho lose nearly thirty percent of its audience due to a forced three-month long hiatus.
New episodes of Jericho are currently in production with no return date currently set.
Update: 4:04PM EDT
I've written a follow-up to this story with a response to a couple of messages in the CBS forum for Jericho.
Update: August 29th
The first season DVD box set of Jericho is available for pre-order on Amazon for $34.99, and will be released on October 2nd '07. You can also download all 23 episodes from Amazon Unbox, though you'll have to deal with DRM and a Windows-only video player. You can get em right now though!
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CBS hasn't announced a date for the series return, but they are getting close to wrapping up shooting the seven new episodes already. It could come any time, even as a fall replacement if something tanks bad enough.
reidallas
I liked it from the season premier - I thought the subject matter was something EVERYBODY should think about. To see people fighting that have known each other for years - as said in the last episode - the neighboring town was where the nearest Costco was...now they are having an all out battle. It's good "food for thought" and I hope season 2 brings in more people.
If you're reading this and you haven't been watching Jericho - get the 1st season, buy it, rent it, whatever! Then you too will be hooked and will be waiting with bated breathe for season 2!
Came online to check when the Season2 would air, only to see that it's been cancelled? Bring it back!!!
Jericho had everything. It had good characters. It had good writing. And it had a good story because when you think about it, this is possible. Countrys throughout the world still have nukes, and plenty materials to make more.What if that is what the world would have been like if the Cuban Missile Crisis had turned bad.
Next the food supply would have been contaminated and yet magically they are harvesting corn that was out in the open field when this rain and radiation settled on it with no problems.
Third they were still driving around in their cars for months with no gasoline from the outside available. Everyone was allowed to operate out of their own homes instead of some governmental agency (i.e. town government) trying to get people to share and somehow conserve valuable resources which couldn't be replaced with nothing coming in from the outside.
Fourth they always seemed to have an inexaustable supply of alcohol at the local tavern or at least the knowledge to produce their own. All this was taking place and trade for the most part was commencing when PAPER MONEY would become totally worthless one second after the dust settled from the first bomb.
I could go on all night with these, but I hope you get the picture. If you are trying to get a realistic picture of life in a small town and ignore what would really happen (UNLESS YOU SUSPEND REALITY AS IN LOST) this is what will happen. People stop watching because you aren't thinking out what it would really be like.
My answer is to get better writers. Oops they are all on strike!
It seems all the shows I get in too never make it, whilst I agree with Bob's comments above if they did make it according to what would really happen then they would all die wouldnt they!! and then we would be right back to where we are now NO SEASON 2!!!!!!!!
come on guys KEEP IT GOING.
Plllllleeeeeaaaaaassssseeeeee
It was later ordered back into production for a limited run of seven new episodes which will air early next year, as soon as January, probably closer to February.
More Jericho is coming, you just have to be patient and convince other people that haven't seen it before to watch in order to boost the ratings
Otherwise, this really will be the end.
bring it on
Regards,
Duane Nunn